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13-letter words containing ur

  • encouragement — The action of giving someone support, confidence, or hope.
  • encouragingly — In an encouraging manner.
  • enculturating — Present participle of enculturate.
  • enculturation — The gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture or group by a person, another culture, etc.
  • endeavourment — the act of endeavouring
  • endurableness — (rare) The state of being endurable; endurability.
  • entrepreneurs — Plural form of entrepreneur.
  • ethnocultural — Relating to or denoting a particular ethnic group.
  • eureka moment — a moment at which a person realizes or solves something
  • eurocommunism — the policies, doctrines, and practices of Communist Parties in Western Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, esp those rejecting democratic centralism and favouring nonalignment with the Soviet Union and China
  • european plan — a hotel rate of charging covering room and service but not meals
  • european sole — Solea solea, a tongue-shaped flatfish of the family Soleidae, also known as Dover sole or common sole: prefers shallow waters and is highly valued as a food fish
  • european toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans, the male of which carries the fertilized eggs on its hind legs until they hatch: family Discoglossidae
  • european wasp — a large black-and-yellow banded wasp, Vespula germanica, native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia, now established in Australasia and the US
  • excalibur bug — (humour, programming)   The legendary bug that, despite repeated valliant attempts, none but the true king of all programmers can fix. Named after the sword in the stone in the legend of King Arthur.
  • excursionists — Plural form of excursionist.
  • excursiveness — The quality of being discursive.
  • false colours — a flag to which one is not entitled, flown esp in order to deceive
  • fantin-latour — (Ignace) Henri (Joseph Théodore) [ee-nyas ahn-ree zhaw-zef tey-aw-dawr] /iˈnyas ɑ̃ˈri ʒɔˈzɛf teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1836–1904, French painter.
  • farm labourer — a person engaged in physical work on a farm
  • father figure — a man embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the male parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its father.
  • fault current — A fault current is a current that results from a fault.
  • feature creep — creeping featurism
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • feature story — a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Compare follow-up (def 3b), hard news, news story.
  • featurelessly — In a featureless way; without features.
  • federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
  • felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
  • ferae naturae — (of animals) wild or undomesticated (distinguished from domitae naturae).
  • figure of fun — If you describe someone as a figure of fun, you mean that people think they are ridiculous.
  • figure-ground — a property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of a visual field as solid, well-defined objects standing out against a less distinct background.
  • figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
  • final curtain — end of a theatre performance
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • flavopurpurin — a yellow, crystalline anthraquinone dye, C 14 H 8 O 5 , isomeric with purpurin.
  • floor furnace — a small self-contained furnace placed just below the floor of the space to be heated.
  • floricultural — Of or pertaining to floriculture.
  • flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
  • focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
  • foldoc source — The source text of FOLDOC is a single plain text file. FOLDOC is also available on paper from your local printer but, at 700,000+ words, that would be about 2000 pages.
  • food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
  • force majeure — an unexpected and disruptive event that may operate to excuse a party from a contract.
  • forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
  • fort mcmurray — a town in NE Alberta, in W Canada, on the Athabasca River.
  • four horsemen — four riders on white, red, black, and pale horses symbolizing pestilence, war, famine, and death, respectively. Rev. 6:2–8.
  • four-way stop — an intersection of two roads with four stop signs, one facing in each direction
  • four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
  • fourpenny one — a blow, esp with the fist
  • foursome reel — a lively Scottish dance for two couples who combine in square and circular formations
  • fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
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